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Tucson seeks to fix one of its most dangerous roads; unclear if it will happen

Sam Kmack

The stretch of North First Avenue between East River and East Grant roads is one of the most dangerous streets in Tucson: Pedestrians there are hit twice as often as they are on nearby streets and it averages more than 100 vehicle crashes each year.

Only 60% of the roadway has sidewalks despite being one of the most pedestrian-heavy streets in the city, with children and elderly people representing a large portion of that area’s population.

A 2006 plan aimed to fix the issue by adding bike lanes and sidewalks as part of a countywide initiative called the Regional Transportation Authority, which uses a voter-approved sales tax to fund roadwork.

The project was scheduled to begin in 2026 — the last year before the current RTA expires — but Tucson is now facing a multimillion-dollar funding shortfall that may prevent the First Avenue roadwork from getting started.

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“That is one of the highest concentrations of pedestrian activity in the city of Tucson, which has landed the First Avenue corridor on the city of Tucson’s pedestrian high-injury network,” said Patrick Hartley, Tucson’s Complete Streets Program coordinator. “(That means) it’s in the top 10% of corridors for pedestrian crashes in the city of Tucson.”

Mayor Regina Romero, who sits on the RTA’s governance board, recently presented a plan that could reduce the project’s cost in order to eliminate the gap and still complete the desired upgrades.

The strategy would keep the street’s width at four lanes rather than expanding it to six, part of the original plan that may no longer be needed.

“It has been 15 years since the RTA plan was approved,” Hartley said. “As we’re all aware, our needs have evolved extensively. At that time, they were estimating a population in Pima County of 1.5 million people by 2030 and very significant travel growth along this corridor, which has never materialized. ”

A city study found that the existing four lanes on First Avenue will continue to allow sufficient traffic flow even if an additional 10,000 drivers are using the road by 2045 — the highest growth estimate for that time frame. City staffers also conducted a survey that showed widespread public support for the four-lane option among business owners and residents in the affected area.

The adjustment would cut costs by nearly $20 million while keeping all of the other changes to First Avenue identical to the original 2006 plan.

But the fix isn’t necessarily as simple as it may seem, and Tucson needs the majority of the RTA Board’s support to make it happen.

Because the original plan was approved by voters, RTA officials have historically shied away from those types of large scope changes for fear of losing support.

Sahuarita Mayor Tom Murphy echoed those concerns along with Arizona Department of Transportation representative Gen. Ted Maxwell, who said some voters would perceive the change as the RTA failing to deliver what it had promised.

Maxwell also spoke about increased traffic flow on First Avenue still being a potential issue without the extra lanes and suggested rolling the project into the next RTA. It would allow Tucson to use the existing First Avenue funds for other projects and have a “do-over” during the new program, when other funds could be available to complete the full six-lane expansion.

Board members said the First Avenue project could begin construction on the same date regardless of whether it’s pushed to RTA Next, but it’s a gamble for the city.

Tucson has called the RTA’s voting structure unfair, taken issue with the funding shortfalls and vowed to withdraw by Feb. 1 if those complaints aren’t addressed — and city officials said they haven’t been. Maxwell’s proposal could make the First Avenue project dependent on the city’s continued participation in the program.

“With all due respect, General, we have no reason to wait anymore. I feel as though the city of Tucson has carried the load on waiting on projects and if we are going to have an RTA Next, I believe that the people of the city of Tucson need to see the tangible results of their investments,” Romero said.

Another barrier to getting the plan passed may crop up depending on the RTA Technical Management Committee’s review of the proposed changes. The group is tasked with forwarding a recommendation to the board about whether the scope adjustment should be approved.

It’s also unclear how long it will take for the committee to finish its review. Farhad Moghimi, the RTA’s executive director, said he doesn’t expect to have a recommendation “anytime soon.”

Even if all else works out in a timely manner, the city’s proposal still might fall short of filling the overall funding gap.

Tucson needs to come up with an extra $30 million for drainage improvements near the First Avenue area before construction can begin — and those funds haven’t been identified.

“That is an issue that if we don’t have a resolution, regardless of which option you choose, the project cannot move forward,” Moghimi said.

The RTA Board is likely to vote on the First Avenue scope adjustment within the coming months, though it’s not yet clear when that will take place.

Photos: Tucson Controlled Access Highway in 1954

“Citizen Charlie” on SR 84A in Tucson

Westbound SR 84A (now I-10), east of 6th Ave. in 1954. In 1948, the Arizona State Highway Department approved the Tucson Controlled Access Highway, a bypass around downtown Tucson. It was named State Route 84A, and connected Benson Highway (US 80) with the Casa Grande Highway (SR 84). By 1961, it was reconstructed as Interstate 10.

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“Citizen Charlie” on SR 84A in Tucson

Westbound SR 84A (now I-10) at Orphanage Road (now 12th Ave. ) in 1954. In 1948, the Arizona State Highway Department approved the Tucson Controlled Access Highway, a bypass around downtown Tucson. It was named State Route 84A, and connected Benson Highway (US 80) with the Casa Grande Highway (SR 84). By 1961, it was reconstructed as Interstate 10.

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“Citizen Charlie” on SR 84A in Tucson

Westbound SR84A (now I-10) at Congress Street in 1954. In 1948, the Arizona State Highway Department approved the Tucson Controlled Access Highway, a bypass around downtown Tucson. It was named State Route 84A, and connected Benson Highway (US 80) with the Casa Grande Highway (SR 84). By 1961, it was reconstructed as Interstate 10.

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“Citizen Charlie” on SR 84A in Tucson

Westbound SR 84A (now I-10) at St. Mary’s Road in 1954. In 1948, the Arizona State Highway Department approved the Tucson Controlled Access Highway, a bypass around downtown Tucson. It was named State Route 84A, and connected Benson Highway (US 80) with the Casa Grande Highway (SR 84). By 1961, it was reconstructed as Interstate 10.

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“Citizen Charlie” on SR 84A in Tucson

Westbound SR 84A (now I-10) at Grant Road in 1954. In 1948, the Arizona State Highway Department approved the Tucson Controlled Access Highway, a bypass around downtown Tucson. It was named State Route 84A, and connected Benson Highway (US 80) with the Casa Grande Highway (SR 84). By 1961, it was reconstructed as Interstate 10.

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“Citizen Charlie” on SR 84A in Tucson

Westbound SR 84A (now I-10) at US 80 (Miracle Mile) in 1954.In 1948, the Arizona State Highway Department approved the Tucson Controlled Access Highway, a bypass around downtown Tucson. It was named State Route 84A, and connected Benson Highway (US 80) with the Casa Grande Highway (SR 84). By 1961, it was reconstructed as Interstate 10.

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Reporter Sam Kmack covers local government. Contact him at [email protected].

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Neighbors Care Alliance (NCA) – Pim’s Council on Aging

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The Neighbors Care Alliance (NCA) is a network of local volunteer programs with a common mission to help older people live safely in their homes as much as possible longer. The programs serve specific geographic areas and are each organized independently. The Pima Aging Council acts as the program administrator and provides tools for infrastructure building, volunteer training, networking opportunities, access to community resources and mileage redemption. Volunteers support seniors with a variety of services that may include transportation to doctor’s appointments and shopping, running errands, food deliveries, phone calls and visits, light house and yard work, and temporary respite. Connecting neighbors to neighbors reduces the social isolation faced by many older people while helping to meet daily needs.

The NCA welcomes all interested volunteers and local programs online. By participating in the Neighbors Care Alliance, your community program will create an extensive network of resources and support, creating a safety net for seniors.

Interested in helping? Would you like information about joining an active program? Do you need help launching the program in your region? Please contact Mary O’Donoghue at 520-258-5062 or mo’[email protected].

Here is a list of Neighbors Care Alliance programs in and around Tucson:

• 29th Street Community Care Network – Servicing seniors (55+) and adults with disabilities living within 22nd Street and golf link road, as well as Country Club Road and Craycroft Road.
• Carefree Village Helpers – Provide support to older people who live in the Carefree Village mobile home community and mobile home park. 4100 N. Romero Road, 85705.
• Corona Cares – Servicing the elderly living in the Corona de Tucson Fire District between Down Road to the north and Ocotillo View Road to the south, Houghton Road to the west and Wentworth Road to the east.
• Eastside Neighbors Volunteer Program – Providing support to the elderly (55+) who live between Grant Road / Tanque Verde Road to the north and Irvington to the south, and Swan Road to the west and Houghton Road to the east. S services are available in Spanish.
• IMPACT Southern Arizona – Catering and transportation services for seniors living in northwest Pima County, including the Oro, Marana, and Catalina valleys.
• Interfaith Community Services – Services for the elderly and people with disabilities in 28 Pima County Zip Codes. (Check the ICS website to see if your area is on the list.)
• Junction Junction (Robles Junction) – Servicing seniors, primarily vehicles, residing at Robles Junction between Milewide Road and Britten Ranch Road and from Coleman Road to Kinney Road.
• Help – Senior Citizen Services in Campus Farm, Limberlost, Rillito Bend, Mountain View, Richland Heights East, Richland Heights West, Winterhaven, Hedrick Acres, Mountain/1st, Samos, Campbell/Grant, and Jefferson Park.
• Southern Arizona Mobile Meals – Providing special dietary meals to homebound travelers who cannot cook and have special dietary needs. The service area includes the cities of Tucson, Green Valley, and Sahuarita.
• Old Fort Lowell Live-At-Home – Serving seniors and people with disabilities living within the Old Fort Lowell block, which covers the area from Swan Road to Pantano Wash and Rillito River to Glenn Road.
• Park West Neighbors Help Neighbors – Services for the elderly and people with disabilities who live in the Park West mobile home community at 3003 West Broadway Boulevard.
• Vail Resources – Community Resources Greater Vail – Serving seniors living in the Vail School District area – Irvington Road to the north and Sahuarita Road to the south, South Wilmot to the west, and the Pima County border to the east.
• Southern Arizona Elderly Care Program – Tucson – Support for seniors in the LGBTQ community at large within Tucson City. S services are available in Spanish.
• Tucson Estates Neighbors Helping Neighbors – Servicing the elderly living in the Tucson Estates community, which is east of Kinney Road and west of Sarasota Boulevard.
• Valley Assistance Services – Services for adults (55+) and adults with disabilities. The support zone includes Sahuarita, Green Valley, Amado, Arivaka, Tubak and Tumakakori.

Secrets of Old Plane Graveyards – BBC News

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Where do retired planes go? Correspondent
BBC Future talks about the huge “graveyards” in the desert in the southwestern United States, where thousands of aircraft found their last refuge.

Driving along the South Colb Road through Tucson, Arizona, you can see an unusual landscape: a line of houses gives way to rows of American military aircraft, silently sprawled under the scorching desert sun. It has everything from giant cargo planes to hulking bombers, Hercules military transports and F-14 Tomcat interceptor jet fighters, known to viewers from the Hollywood action movie Top Gun.

This is US Air Force Base Davis-Monthan, where 309-I group of repair and maintenance of aerospace equipment. Here, on an area of ​​10.5 square kilometers, about 4,400 aircraft survive their lives. Some of them look like they just returned from a flight a few hours ago, some are covered with covers to protect them from sand and dust, and some are dismantled for parts that are waiting in the hangars in the wings to go to other air bases in the US or abroad and help the operating planes take to the skies again. Airbase staff jokingly call it a “dump of bones” – quite in the spirit of the folklore traditions of the Wild West, which developed at the dawn of the existence of Arizona.

Davis-Monthan is not the only, but certainly the largest aircraft graveyard in the world. Climatic conditions in Arizona – dry heat, low humidity and low rainfall – allow aircraft to be protected from rust and destruction for longer.

In addition, there is a layer of clay nitrate under the soil at a depth of 15 centimeters. As explained in the 309th repair and technical group, thanks to this extremely hard “substrate”, planes can be parked right in the desert without building special expensive platforms for them.

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Decommissioned aircraft as spare parts warehouse…

Aircraft are very expensive to manufacture and operate, but they can be useful even after their flying career is over. However, it takes a lot of space and money to store the cars that have flown off their own in dry and warm hangars. Much cheaper to keep them in conditions like in Tucson. That is why many of the largest landfills of decommissioned aircraft are located in the deserts of the southwestern United States.

Landing a plane at Davis-Montana, parking it next to the others, and handing over the keys to someone would seem easy. But this is not enough. Although many aircraft have been decommissioned, they will have to be returned to service if necessary, so their maintenance requires a lot of effort.

Crashed bombers

The “bone dump” employees follow a clear procedure. All aircraft that were in service on aircraft carriers are thoroughly cleaned so that sea salt does not cause corrosion. All fuel tanks and fuel lines are completely emptied and flushed with a light, viscous oil like that used in sewing machines to keep all moving parts well lubricated.

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Top view of partially dismantled B-52 bombers

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All explosive devices, such as ejection charges, are then removed from the aircraft with the necessary precautions. After that, all inlets and channels are sealed with aluminum tape, and the aircraft is covered with a special, easily removable paint – two layers of black and white on top to reflect the burning rays of the sun and prevent the aircraft from overheating.

Aircraft are stored at various stages of assembly – some are maintained as close to working condition as possible if they are expected to fly again, and some are subject to partial dismantling. Among the aircraft “Davis-Montana” there are decommissioned American bombers B-52, which can be equipped with nuclear weapons. In accordance with the treaties on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive weapons between the USSR and the USA, the wings of B-52 bombers were to be dismantled and stored next to the aircraft so that Soviet satellites recorded their decommissioning.

Some vehicles are sold for spare parts, and excess aircraft are shredded and completely recycled in the smelting furnace located on the base.

In total, Davis-Montana has about 400,000 pieces of equipment and machinery for the production of various aircraft parts, including long-mothballed assembly lines, from which most of the decommissioned aircraft once left. The aircraft, which are equipped with spare parts from the huge stocks of this air base, are serving not only in the United States, but throughout the world.

Post-Soviet cemeteries

“As long as airplanes exist, cemeteries for the military and civil air fleet will be needed so that the rest of the aircraft continue to fly,” says the author of several books about aviation, American Nick Veronico, who has also been to Davis-Montana ”, and in the Mojave Desert in the southwestern United States, and other aircraft cemeteries in the American deserts.

“I flew airplanes that ended up in a warehouse and became a source of spare parts for the air fleet,” says Veronico. the details are the very ones that were taken out, stored and installed in my presence.”

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A Soviet MI-6 helicopter that visited Chernobyl

There are military cemeteries in Russia where some of the old Soviet military aircraft are kept, which were no longer destined to take to the skies. The former Vozdvizhenka air base, about 100 kilometers north of Vladivostok, used to house Soviet supersonic bombers. After the end of the Cold War, the planes were unclaimed and simply remained where they were. The once-secret base is now abandoned, and the ghost squadron attracts only photographers who climb over rusty fences in search of spectacular shots.

Another Soviet-era landfill is located in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, from where all residents were evacuated after the accident. The equipment that was used to clean up the aftermath of the disaster was contaminated with radiation, and several large Soviet helicopters were left to rust in the field.

In 2006, on the 20th anniversary of the nuclear accident, BBC News photo editor Phil Coomes visited the site of the accident. “After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a lot of contaminated equipment that was used to clean up the consequences was placed in burial sites scattered across the huge exclusion zone around the reactor,” he says. – Some machines are there to this day. In the largest burial ground on the site of the village of Rassokha, the remains of helicopters, fire engines, military and civilian equipment are rusting. The junkyard takes up a huge space, but over the years, some cars have been put into spare parts, although the level of radiation here is different everywhere, and souvenir hunters better still stay away. ”

Despite the risk of radiation damage, many helicopters are removed from serviceable parts – skeletal remains are reduced in size every year.

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Decommissioned aircraft at an airport in the Mojave Desert

In the United States, end-of-life civilian aircraft end up at Mojave Airport, located in the desert eastern part of the US state of California. For several decades now, airliners have been brought here and kept in the hot desert until they are scrapped.

“When driving through the Californian desert, the Mojave junkyard can be seen from afar,” says photographer Troy Paiva, who frequently photographed planes there in the 1990s and 2000s before the area was closed for safety reasons. “Long rows of faded tails seem to stretch all the way to the horizon.”

Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Keith Maynard says that it is much easier to dismantle an aircraft than other heavy vehicles. “I can’t say how laborious this process is, but everything that is connected can be disconnected; besides, there are far fewer heavy and dangerous materials in airplanes than in ships.